Gently adjusting open doors.

Gently adjusting open doors.

Enabling a Robot to Open Doors

The area of robotic exploration is a field of growing interest and research in the robotics and computer science communities. Ideally, a human would send a robot into an area otherwise too dangerous for the human to enter, such as a smoke-filled building, a structurally-unsound bridge, or a radioactive area. Although robots already exist which can map a building's floor plan, they can only do s...

The wide-open doors to lexical access

Reading is an ability that appears simple and automatic to the experienced reader, in the same way that driving a car holds no mysteries for the practiced driver. However, most drivers would recall that the number of operations which needed to be learned to move the car smoothly seemed insurmountable during the first days of driving instruction. Nonetheless, as time passed by, thanks to repetit...

Does love or differential reinforcement open doors?

There is a story about Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, which, although charming, has not been verified as historical fact (Strachey, 1921). Whether true or not, the story illustrates the use of differential reinforcement. As the story goes, shortly after their marriage, Prince Albert and Queen Victoria had a quarrel. Albert walked (or stomped, depending on the telling) out of the room and loc...

Stressed states open doors to Medicaid managed care.

For California legislators and specialized Medicaid operations like Molina, shifting ABDs to managed care makes sense. Highrisk Medicaid beneficiaries need the small army of nurses, providers, and case workers that a plan like Molina deploys to help coordinate care and eliminate ER visits, readmissions, and other costly and avoidable interventions. Even though the state pays plans a higher per-...